Texas/Oklahoma Trip

We were super excited to take a trip to Texas to see our good friends, the Carlocks.  They even gave us a tour of their hometown of Ardmore, OK.  This was the first time any of us have ever stepped foot in Oklahoma.  It was a great trip but way too short.  How lucky we are to have such wonderful friends.  We are already looking for a date a few short months away that we can see them again!

We got in on Thursday evening and stayed up way too late chatting with Teal and Laren only to be kept up most of the night by a toddler uncomfortable in his surroundings.  (At least that's what I think it was.)  Each night got better, thankfully.

Baby Tripp....what a cutie!

Reed loved playing with Tripp!

On Friday, we took our time getting ready before we hopped in the car and headed for Oklahoma.  In Oklahoma, we stopped at their favorite local hamburger joint, Hamburger Inn, which was incredible.  We also toured a warehouse that was a funhouse for our animal-loving child.  We also got to see the homes that Teal and Laren grew up in.  So fun!  They returned the favor of taking us to their hometown after we took them to the big city of Summerville when they came to GA two years ago.

A little scary to me but Reed loved checking out all the animals.

Reed and Chris with the big bad wolf.  Kind of looks like The Nothing from Neverending Story to me.

On Saturday, we hit up the State Fair of Texas and tried pretty much every fried food they had.  We tasted fried oreos, fried snickers, fried cheesecake, fried twinkies, fried butter and a corndog.  Needless to say, none of us should eat for the next week or so to make up for everything we ate that day.

Laren enjoying her corndog!

Fried oreos, yumm!!!

Reed trying his first fried oreo.

Our Fam with Big Tex.

Teal and Laren

The fried food that sounded the least appetizing.  We didn't try it.

Reed enjoying my favorite thing that I had at the fair, fresh squeezed lemonade.  Love it!

Reed riding Pepper.

He was not too pleased about getting off the carousel but then he was happy to watch Pepper go round and round.

Saturday evening was a lazy night at the Carlocks home watching football followed by a lazy Sunday morning.  It was a perfect weekend.....including the crazy driving required to get us to the airport to check our bag in just in time (about 2 minutes to spare, lol).  We love you guys!!

Finally, a semi-complete room.

And by semi-complete I mean that our guest bedroom is as decorated as it's going to get for quite some time.  The first project that I completed for our new house was the striped yellow and white curtains for this room.  It's only been a year since that project was completed that I finally got this room looking decent.

Here's a picture of the room after the curtains were completed........

Bor-ing!

And here is the room now......

My apologies for the sheet sticking out at the end of the bed.  I maybe should have recognized that, lol!

Pillows, pillows and more pillows.  The artwork are pieces from a Georgia O'Keefe coffee table book that I snagged from Borders for super cheap when it was going out of business.  The frames are from Ikea.

I think it has turned into a pretty good retreat for our guests!

If you are interested....

Curtains:  Ikea curtains painted with stripes.  Click here for tutorial.

Duvet Cover: Ikea

Blanket: Ikea

Chevron Pillow:  Tonic Living

Blue dot pillows: Ikea

Euro Pillow Shams: Pottery Barn....I thought they were still available but I can't find them on their website.

Sorry for my absence......

I've been hard at work on this guy.

I have been searching for a set of wing back chairs at a reasonable price on craigslist and I finally found a couple two weeks ago.  I can't say we necessarily have a set place for them to go in our house, but I knew that I liked the style of the chair and I also wanted to try my hand at re-upholstering.  It was a long and tedious process that included removing about 3 million staples.  Here is the finished product....

It's a long way from perfect, that's for sure, but I did finish it.  The verdict is I will certainly not be doing re-upholstering as a job.  It was nice to save $280 per chair by re-upholstering this chair myself, but it was hard, exhausting work.  We can mark this off my list of potential money-making ideas, lol!  The good news is that this chair is dunzo and is now sitting in our bedroom, but there is bad news, there is still another chair to be done.  Ugh!  

I will be taking a break from re-upholstering the other chair to work on these guys.  I picked them up on Friday and the painting process has already begun.  I am super pumped to finally put some chairs around our dining room table!

Just call him Adele or B.o.b.!

Help us make a decision - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >

The decision that needs to be made has to do with what our little man is going to be for Halloween.  We have three front runners and just can't seem to make a decision, and he is absolutely no help because he wants to be whatever you ask him about, lol!  Our choices are a cowboy, which would be adorable with the stick pony he got for his birthday, a train conductor, because the kid loves his trains, or a dinosaur, because he is all about dinosaurs right now.  Please vote on the poll to the right to let us know what you think Reed should be for Halloween.  We know he'll be a cutie in any of these, so we are having a major struggle right now.  We certainly won't complain though if these are our only struggles!

Fall Festival

Reed's preschool hosted a fall festival on Saturday with lots of fun bouncy houses and slides, football toss, scavenger hunt, train rides and Reed's absolute favorite, pony rides.  It was a fun Saturday morning for our family!

Reed and his pony.

He clenched his teeth together the entire ride.  Not sure what that is about.

Ride 'em cowboy, which is what he said while he was riding the pony.  He must have gotten this from Toy Story.  He was also bouncing up and down like he was a pro rider, lol!

About to be pushed down the slide.  He liked it but didn't love it.

Bounce, bounce, bounce!

His second pony ride.....still clenching his teeth.

A Visit from the Fuszards!

Our good friends Abbey and Luke drove over from Birmingham this weekend with their precious baby girl Aidan to hang out with us before they head home to Wisconsin in less than two weeks.  We are super excited that they are getting to move home, but we are also super sad they won't be so close anymore.  : (  We have an excuse to check out Wisconsin now!  It was a great time having them around.  We were lazy, hanging around the house, eating and watching sports, but it was the perfect way to catch up with them!  We're going to miss you guys!  Have a safe trip home!

Reed had so much fun playing with Aidan.  The first time they met they just kind of stared at each other.  When Reed walked away to find Aidan a toy she had the most pitiful face and then started to cry a very sad cry.  Abbey and I were literally almost in tears because she was so sad.  I think they liked each other!  Reed might have hugged a little too tight a few times and almost knocked her over while sitting a few times, but other than that, he did great!

Just a little squeeze.

And lounging on the pillow.

The next morning Reed and Aidan had on the same pj's, in a different color, so we had to get a few pics of them together.  Reed wasn't his normal 2 year old self, so we actually got some great pics of the two of them.  So precious!

Can you even handle how cute this is?!?!?

Aidan was a pro too and gave us some really good smiles!

"Hi friend!"

Little Miss Aidan!